Excelle

What about the tattle-tale? That person sure can get you down! He/She can mis-perceive your silence as being rude when you are just busy and go crying to the supervisor. He/She can find anything to tell on you for, even the most benign stuff, and then YOU get called on the carpet.

What about the volatile personality? The one who will blow up just because you borrowed their thumb tack and forgot to return it. The simplest thing will set off this personality and you better watch out because that stapler that they borrowed is likely to come flying back over the cubicle wall to you.

This is great and I see several co-workers in this lot. Buutt, there are so many more. Like the Unorganized manager who is always late for meetings, if they show up at all; and thats for the meetings they scheduled. The Internet cruiser who always seems to be on the internet, talking to a family member or im-ing a friend when you walk by their desk, and then you are asked to help them out since they just can't get everything done (and they get paid more than you to boot). Or the Aging Technocrat who still thinks DOS is the state of the art operating systems and has temper fits when you ask why he made the decision he did about something.

Truth is there are as many types as there are you and me, but there are some recognizable types - we just have to be careful not to "type-cast" them. (like the emoticons).
Laurie Sheppard @creatingatwill.com and @positivethinkingway.com

This was great. I see a lot of my co-workers in them. However, one is missing. The know-it-all. And trust me, I have one at work that loves to let us know-it-all. Maybe I should deal with her as the talker...give them a time limit and walk away. ;)

Oh my gosh, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I could totally see some of my coworkers in this!